The Open Sourcerer

Broadband Magic with the I-Plate

Well today I was amazed.

I bought, on the suggestion of my colleague Alan Bell, the I-Plate for BT’s master socket. It costs about a tenner including postage and there are lots of happy people who saw their broadband speeds increase when they used it.

Well, it arrived at lunchtime today and after puzzling a bit because of some strange extension wiring, we managed to work out how to plug it in.

Here’s what my cheap and old ADSL router said before I plugged in the I-Plate:

And here is what it said in the time it took us to walk back downstairs to my office:

Note the Downstream speed!

I’d say that was a tenner well spent. Of course YMMV but it seems worth a try.